Are battles always one sided?

[Cyrus]

Why doesn't that seem satisfactory? He stated that his ships had no experience at all while yours were legendary.

I'm not exactly certain, but I beleive that legendary ships start at 30 experience. If he would have gone through the simple step of building a ship and fleet traing facility he could have easily gotten his ships up to 20 experience, which would have mostly offset your advantage and probably resulted in what happened in the simulator. It's not the fault of experience. He lost due to lack of preperation. You wouldn't send a ship into combat without guns would you? Then don't send one in that isn't trained.